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"A lot more fun than Chinese Democracy":Supergroup Velvet Revolver mostly live up to the hype on Contraband

Did Velvet Revolver produce an album to do the legacy of Guns N' Roses proud? Or was it just another under-achieving and short-lived side-project?

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“If you’d given me a handful of résumés, I’d avoid the ones that said ‘irretrievable junkie’ on them”: the unlikely birth of Velvet Revolver, the supergroup who triumphed against the odds

Velvet Revolver’s debut album, Contraband, was released on June 8, 2004. In this classic interview, Slash reveals how one of rock’s greatest modern supergroups got off the ground

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“I was trying to be Dave Navarro or Vito Bratta – those moments where you go into the spotlight with wind blowing”: Terry Corso on how he finally fused ’80s shred with nu metal for Alien Ant Farm’s surprising comeback

Writing shreddiest record yet, Mantras, was like a debut album experience for Corso. He reveals why he’s reveling in building his own guitars, loves surprising audiences with Strandbergs, and the guitar lessons he learned from Stone Temple Pilots’ DeLeo brothers

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"It never occurred to me that was what you're supposed to be doing": Springsteen, Pearl Jam and AC/DC super producer Brendan O'Brien reveals how he learned the second most fundamental part of recording songs after tempo

"I did not even know that right away"

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“I'm really dumb for doing this, but here goes nothing!” Nuno Bettencourt swapped his Washburn N4 for a Les Paul copy to shred onstage with Stone Temple Pilots – and still sounded exactly like Nuno Bettencourt

The Extreme guitarist was spotted playing a Nelson LP copy as he shared the stage with “one of the greatest rock bands of all time”

Guitar World

Watch Hollywood star Kate Hudson sing the Stone Temple Pilots classic Vasoline

A-lister Kate Hudson releases her debut album Glorious later this month

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“Nobody who ‘represents’ my dad actually cares to give the fans new unheard music, let alone keep his name alive.” Scott Weiland's son releases song featuring his father's vocals following extortion threat

Noah Weiland says that he has released Time Will Tell, initially recorded by his father post-Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver, after blackmail threats from persons unknown

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“I lived with this false hope that Weiland was one day gonna get it together. I kick myself because we let it go on for so long”: how Chester Bennington helped rebuild grunge icons Stone Temple Pilots

The story of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington’s brief but memorable stint with grunge legends Stone Temple Pilots

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14 best grunge tracks to test your hi-fi system

Dig out that flannel and put your hi-fi system through its paces with our playlist of favourite grunge test tracks.

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10 moments of genius from MTV Unplugged

As Nirvana’s iconic set turns 30, we pick out the ten best songs from the famous sessions

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“Diamonds are made under pressure!”: Stone Temple Pilots’ Dean DeLeo on the band's songwriting dynamic when they made Purple

The grunge-rockers’ classic second record turns 30 next year

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“It was strange to pick up a tape and find titles like Sex Type Thing”: the time the mum of a 90s grunge fan made him go on Oprah to clean up his look

American mother Pam was also leftt unimpressed by Stone Temple Pilots’ debut album

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The electric guitar shredded itself to death in the ‘80s. It had to start over, but the ‘90s grunge revolution didn‘t just change the face of guitar playing – it changed the world

Guitar World presents a grunge guitar guide to the ‘90s, the decade when Seattle became the epicenter of the musical universe, and resurrected the electric guitar with a raw, dirty sound that gave birth to a whole new generation of guitar players

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10 terrible grunge albums with one classic song

Grunge brought us some classic albums, but a lot of stinkers, too. Luckily, these poor efforts were all saved by one brilliant song

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How Stone Temple Pilots’ Purple album captured a band at their peak, before everything started to go wrong

Stone Temple Pilot’s triumphant second album, Purple, is a grunge-era classic and the sound of a band silencing their critics

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The 50 Greatest Guns N' Roses songs and the stories behind them - only in the new Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Rival Sons, Joe Perry, Glen Matlock & Clem Burke, Extreme, Stone Temple Pilots, Steely Dan, Ayron Jones and more

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Phil Collen on Jeff Beck: “Jeff’s amp blew up and his pedalboard didn’t work, so they just brought in another Marshall – he sounded exactly the same. He didn’t even flinch”

The Def Leppard guitarist reflects on the life and legacy of Jeff Beck, and explains how Beck's trailblazing style is all over the the Leppard catalog

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Aftershock Festival calls on Muse to fill Foo Fighters spot

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Muse, one of the best live acts on the planet, has been announced as a replacement headliner for the Aftershock Festival in Sacramento.

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